Sciences and Technology

Ben Shneiderman / Human-Centered AI (Coffee Table Book)

The remarkable progress in algorithms for machine and deep learning have opened the doors to new opportunities, and some dark possibilities. However, a bright future awaits those who build on their working methods by including HCAI strategies of design...

Peter Cattermole / Building Planet Earth: Five Billion Years of Earth History (Coffee Table Book)

Continental plates, moving as fast as human hair grows, collide, mountains buckle, the ocean abyss sucks in the Earth's crust, and volcanos explode. Here is a story that Hollywood wished it could option: the dynamic cycle of geological destruction...

Terry Hope / Spacecam: In Co-Operation With NASA (Coffee Table Book)

Culled from throughout the fifty year history of the space program, these images present stunning scenes from this planet and several others, all the while revealing the breathtaking beauty and mystery of outer space.       This...

Richard J. Brown / 30-Second Math (Coffee Table Book)

From Rubik's cubes to Godel's incompleteness theorem, everything mathematical explained, with colour illustrations, in half a minute. Maths is enjoying a resurgence in popularity. So how can you avoid being the only dinner guest who has no idea who...

Matthieu Ricard & Trịnh Xuân Thuận / The Quantum and the Lotus (Large Paperback)

The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet   Matthieu Ricard trained as a molecular biologist, working in the lab of a Nobel prize—winning scientist, but when he read some Buddhist philosophy,...

Mark W. Moffett / The Human Swarm (Large Paperback)

A specialist on social insects writes about the origins and implications of our own vast social organisation, and the ways in which our ethnic and national distinctions mirror those of other animals. In this paradigm-shattering book, biologist Mark W...

H.C. Moolenburgh / As Chance Would Have It: A Study in Coincidences (Coffee Table Book)

Coincidences happen to everyone on a regular basis. Usually we shrug them off and forget them.However, when we start to catalogue coincidences we are in for a surprise. They begin to grow more frequent and, moreover, they tend to form a pattern as if...

Raman Prinja / Visions of the Universe (Coffee Table Book)

This unique and stunning collection of digital images from NASA, ESO and ESA captures the visual drama, beauty and challenging activity of the universe, including star-forming clouds of gas, the most detailed image ever obtained of the Sun, the...

Kevin Nelson / The Spiritual Doorway in the Brain (Large Paperback)

A Neurologist's Search for the God Experience "Bold, provocative, and highly readable."-V. S. Ramachandran, M.D., author of Phantoms in the Brain What are near-death experiences, out-of-body sensations, and spiritual ecstasy? And what do they have in...

Bruno Latour / Aramis, or The Love of Technology (Large Paperback)

A guided-transportation system intended for Paris, Aramis represented a major advance in personal rapid transit: it combined the efficiency of a subway with the flexibility of an automobile. But in the end, its electronic couplings proved too complex and...

David E. Nye / Consuming Power - A Social History of American Energies(Large Paperback)

Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people engaged in normal activities. How did the United States become the world's largest consumer of energy? David Nye shows that this is less a question about the development of...

Lucy A. Suchman / Human-Machine Reconfigurations (Large Paperback)

This 2007 book considers how agencies were figured at the human-machine interface, and how they might be imaginatively and materially reconfigured. Contrary to the apparent enlivening of objects promised by the sciences of the artificial, the author...

Robert A. Weinberg / One Renegade Cell: The Quest For The Origins Of Cancer (Hardback)

Cancer research has reached a major turning point. The quality and quantity of information gathered about this disease in the past twenty years has revolutionized our understanding of its origins and behavior. No one is better qualified to comment on...

James E. Lovelock / A Rough Ride to the Future (Hardback)

In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock - the great scientific visionary of our age - presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system.  Lovelock, who was hailed as 'the man who conceived the first...

Andrew McAfee / Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future (Hardback)

From the authors of the best-selling The Second Machine Age , a leader’s guide to success in a rapidly changing economy. We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google...

Daniel Miller, Don Slater / The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach (Large Paperback)

This pathbreaking book was the first to provide a rigorous and comprehensive examination of Internet culture and consumption in the early 2000's. A rich ethnography of Internet use, the book offers a sustained account not just of being online, but of the...

Brenda Laurel / Computers As Theatre (Large Paperback)

Presents a new theory of human-computer activity. Building on Aristotle's analysis of the form and structure of drama, Laurel shows how similiar principles can help us understand what people experience when interfacing with computers.   This book is...

Charles Perrow, Charles Perron / Normal Accidents (Large Paperback)

A noted Yale sociologist examines how and why catastrophic accidents occur in high-tech industries—nuclear power, petrochemical, and aerospace—and argues that they are becoming nearly inevitable in our advanced technological society. This...

Philip E. Agre, Douglas Schuler / Reinventing Technology (Large Paperback)

This book addresses how computers affect people's everyday lives. Using actual situations and problems that people have encountered with current software applications, this book offers academics ways to examine how new situations are created through...

Albert Borgmann / Holding On to Reality (Large Paperback)

Holding On to Reality is a brilliant history of information, from its inception in the natural world to its role in the transformation of culture to the current Internet mania and is attendant assets and liabilities. Drawing on the history of ideas, the...

Mark Buchanan / Nexus - Small Worlds and the Theory of Networks (Large Paperback)

As Chaos explained the science of disorder, Nexus reveals the new science of connection and the odd logic of six degrees of separation. "If you ever wanted to know how many links connect you and the Pope, or why when the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank sneezes...

Anna Wiener / Uncanny Valley (Large Paperback)

The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital ageIn her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener—stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good...

Thomas Morris /The Matter of the Heart (Large Paperback)

A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations An eye-opening and heroic story of pioneering heart surgeons, structured around eleven operations.For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too...

Juilie Lloyd / A Concise Guide to Weather (Large Paperback)

A conprehensive guide to all aspects of the weather illustrated throughout with superb colour photographs diagrams and maps.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it...

Jeffrey M. Schwartz , Sharon Begley / The Mind & the Brain (Large Paperback)

Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force A groundbreaking work of science that confirms, for the first time, the independent existence of the mind–and demonstrates the possibilities for human control over the workings of the brain...

Paul McFedries / iPad 2 Portable Genius (Large Paperback)

Everything you need to know about the iPad 2! Finally decided to get the hottest device on the planet? If so, don't go far without the iPad's must-have accessory—your own copy of iPad 2 Portable Genius. This hip little guide will show you how to...

Rohit Talwar / A Very Human Future (Large Paperback)

A Very Human Future: Enriching Humanity in a Digitized World   Rohit Talwar, Steve Wells, Alexandra Whittington, Helena Calle A VERY HUMAN FUTURE As society enters the fourth industrial revolution, a major question...

Michael E. Mann / The New Climate War (Large Paperback)

A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil-fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and to delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet.   This book is second...

James Kinross / Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome (Hardback)

From a world-leading microbiome scientist and surgeon with over two decades of experience comes Dark Matter - the definitive book on the science of the microbiome and how unlocking its potential can protect our health, our immunity and our...

Richard Dawkins / Science in the Soul (Hardback)

The legendary biologist, provocateur, and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time...

Cat Bohannon / Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (Large Paperback)

An ambitious, ground-breaking and myth-busting history of the evolution of the female bodyHow did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies?In Eve,...

Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green / Vaxxers (Hardback)

A gripping, inspirational account of the race to create a functioning vaccine to combat the spread of Covid-19, Vaxxers is the story of two scientists who have accomplished something truly remarkable at a pace that few people ever thought possible.This...

Michael Sims / Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form (Hardback)

A cultural history of the perceptions, exploitations, and celebrations of the human body discusses such topics as Achilles' heel, dreadlocks, fingerprints, breast-feeding, navel rings, and back pain.   This book is second hand, and while you may not...

Marcia Bartusiak / Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loved (Hardback)

The contentious history of the idea of the black hole—the most fascinating and bizarre celestial object in the heavensFor more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the...

Helen Pilcher / Small Inventions That Made a Big Difference (Hardback)

Pockets, matches, spectacles, postage stamps.Whether it's the stitches that hold our clothes together or the syringes that deliver life-saving vaccines, small things really do make a big difference. Yet these modest but essential components of everyday...

Albert Einstein / Ideas and Opinions (Large Paperback)

IDEAS AND OPINIONS contains essays by eminent scientist Albert Einstein on subjects ranging from atomic energy, relativity, and religion to human rights, government, and economics. Previously published articles, speeches, and letters are gathered...

Alex Boese / Electrified Sheep (Large Paperback)

Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use artificial respiration to revive an electric shock victim. Odder still,...

Edward Lucas / Cyberphobia: Identity, Trust, Security and the Internet (Large Paperback)

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Roger Penrose / The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (Large Paperback)

In a single work of colossal scope one of the world’s greatest scientists has given us a complete and unrivalled guide to the glories of the universe.The Road to Reality is the most important and ambitious work of science for a generation. It...

Michael Specter / Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives (Large Paperback)

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Fiona Fox / Beyond the Hype: The Inside Story of Science's Biggest Media Controversies (Hardback)

What happens when science hits the headlines – for all the wrong reasons?Do you remember the ‘Climategate’ email leak? Or the ‘Frankenscience’-style headlines about the perils of GM foods? What about the time the government...

Kevin Warwick / I, Cyborg (Hardback)

An account of an artificial intelligence experiment in humans.Computer chips will be inserted into the nervous systems of both the author, a professor of Cybernetics, and his wife. The experiment is to determine if emotions such as intoxication, anger,...

Bryan Appleyard / Brave New Worlds (Hardback)

Offers a review of modern-day scientific breakthroughs in biology and genetics while emphasizing the need for human ethics and values with regard to genetic manipulation       This book is second hand, and while you may not get...

Michael D. West / The Immortal Cell: One Scientist's Quest to Solve the Mystery of Human Aging (Hardback)

The extraordinary story of the breakthrough discoveries in cell aging, stem cell research, and therapeutic cloning, and the tremendous promise they hold for dramatically extending human life.Dr. Michael West has been consumed with the mystery of science...

Gerard J. DeGroot / Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest (Hardback)

This text reveals how NASA cashed in on the Americans' thirst for heroes in an age of discontent and became obsessed with putting men in space. It explains why the American space program has been caught in a state of purposeless wandering ever since...

Keith Whittles / Concise Dictionary of Science (Hardback)

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Denis Brian / Einstein - A Life (Hardback)

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Carlo Rovelli / Reality is not what it seems (Hardback)

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John Horgan / The End of Science (Hardback)

As a writer for "Scientific American", the author is regularly afforded the opportunity of interviewing comtemporary scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Hawking and Noam Chomsky. In this work, he discusses with them whether all...

Eamonn G. Hall / The Electronic Age - Telecommunications in Ireland (1993) (Hardback)

1993 title on the development and evolution of telecoms in 20th century Ireland   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing...

Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb, Anna Zeligowski / Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, And Symbolic Variation in the History of Life (Large Paperback)

Ideas about heredity and evolution are undergoing a revolutionary change. New findings in molecular biology challenge the gene-centered version of Darwinian theory according to which adaptation occurs only through natural selection of chance DNA...

Grady Booch / Best of Booch: Designing Strategies for Object Technology (Large Paperback)

No one can dispute the impact Grady Booch's writings have had on object-oriented technology. Best of Booch contains articles on various object-oriented topics published since Grady Booch's book Object Oriented Modeling and Design with Applications...